Over at 1Up, Jeremy Parish is Revisiting Halo, going over the Cortana Letters and pre-buyout screenshots; they promise even a look at the Marathon trilogy will be on tap.
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Data Jacking?
Um… I’m not sure I understand all that’s going on here… but some weird stuff showed up on our forum this morning. Before you go there, though – visit This Spartan Life; it seems to start there (check the front page, then visit their episodes page).(Louis Wu 11:58:57 UTC)
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Blomkamp’s Second Short Surfaces
Avateur (and Menelven) point out that over at Gamersyde, there’s a shakeycam version of Neil Blomkamp’s second Halo live-action short. This one shows combat between ODSTs and Brutes, and I’m guessing it was shown (and filmed) at Leipzig this week. As with most footage being broadcast from the show, this probably doesn’t qualify as a ‘leak’ – but I’d bet that it’ll be available in true digital format in the very near future; you might want to wait to enjoy it at the highest possible quality. Your call. (It’s possible that you’re not seeing the whole thing, either; it ends very abruptly. This might be intentional – or it might just be that only part was shown, or recorded.)(Louis Wu 10:43:44 UTC)
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1Up Halo 3 Flood Starts
1Up.com has begun its nearly month-long Halo 3 intense coverage – the first three items are up now. A new screenshot gallery (with a great collection of new shots), a hands-on preview of Halo 3’s fourth campaign mission, and a blog from editor Jeremy Parish, looking back on Halo’s roots, round out the first day’s content. Nice! Thanks, darthbob (and doober187).(Louis Wu 10:38:21 UTC)
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IMAX show continues to wow
More writeups of the IMAX Halo 3 showing Tuesday night – from professional journalists at The Seattle Times and fansites like GruntsRUs. Everybody loved it!(Louis Wu 10:31:50 UTC)
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Another clip roundup
More footage, mostly from Leipzig: Daily Motion and TeamXbox both have different sizes of the same IGN video – a nice multiplayer montage. In fact, Oliver from Halo Base (in Germany) sent us a link that contains all the clips they’ve found so far – go ahead and check it out if you think you’re missing something.(Louis Wu 10:21:39 UTC)
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RvB thoughts
Computerworld has a look back on Rooster Teeth’s effect on machinima, triggered by the fact that the Season Five DVD is now available (my preordered copy arrived last week) – go read, then (if you don’t already have it) go buy!(Louis Wu 09:58:54 UTC)
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Uprising – now on shelves
A lot of people pointed out that we neglected to mention that Marvel’s first episode of Halo: Uprising went on sale yesterday. Consider yourself informed. (Feedback on our forum – full of spoilers, so don’t read this unless you’re done with the issue – has been positive.) Stories like this one, from the Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, will show up a lot this week.(Louis Wu 09:50:58 UTC)
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Gentlemen Prefer Marathon… Or Halo
The most recent Preferred Player column over at Xbox.com, penned by KP, is on Freeverse’s XBLA port of Marathon: Durandal; specifically, an XBL cooperative game of Marathon the author played with yours truly and other notable Bungiefen Geary11 and ZuP101.
Not to be outdone, TriXie did an interview with Halo and Marathon player SniperStealth, the very same that Rampancy interviewed last week when SS nailed the top spot on the Marathon: Durandal single player leaderboard.
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Bioshock show postponed
Sorry guys but a situation came up where I can’t be at this week’s podcast. And since JVB is at PAX, we can’t record this week’s show quite yet. We hope to be able to do a makeup session for Bioshock shortly. Thanks for your patience and understanding!
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HALO 3 video round up. Over a dozen videos. New vehicles. New maps. RvB videos. Other.
Lots of HALO 3 videos are making there ways from camera phones to the series of tubes between you and me. Have a look at what’s out there after the break.
5-minute sneak peat at HALO 3 Limited and Collector’s Edition DVD @ GameInvasion.
Red vs Blue HALO 3 Editions
Gamestop HALO 3 marketing video
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I think he needs the space for a banquet table.
PFG is selling off the doubles in his (rather ridiculously large) Joyride Action Figure collection – go see what there is, and make him an offer!(Louis Wu 23:54:04 UTC)
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Spartanarena
We got email from Tucker Barrie, who let us know about one of the coolest stop-motion Halo films to pass through our doors in quite some time. It’s called ‘Spartanarena’, and probably not for the reason you’re thinking. You can download it in QuickTime (26.4 mb) or WMP9 (21.1 mb) formats – or you can watch it on YouTube, if you must (the quality’s better on the downloadables). Don’t miss this one.(Louis Wu 22:10:02 UTC)
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Pairing Up
Gamespot has a nice writeup of Halo 3 Coop, as played in Sydney. Thanks, Sir Topham Hat.(Louis Wu 22:05:40 UTC)
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Even more gameplay clips
Astounding number of singleplayer clips appearing today – Nucflash found another one at IGTV, and Bootsman found a pair (one | two) at GameVideos.com. I’m sure there’ll be more – but I’ve got to call it quits at this point. (Louis Wu 21:53:36 UTC)
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RT: Season Five is here!
Hey everybody! I’m very excited to announce that the RvB Season Five DVD is now officially in stock. All pre-orders have been filled, and any new orders placed will ship out as we receive them. It’s conveniently located right here in our store. If it’s…
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Those ironic Bungie guys…
Awesome. If things go as planned, standbyers in Halo 3 will find themselves playing only other standbyers. (Well… and people with really crappy connections.) Bungie.net forum post found by Nucflash.(Louis Wu 21:43:23 UTC)
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Halo 3 in airy height play
Halo Universe has some photos of the Halo 3 Ferris Wheel we mentioned a couple of days ago, set up at the Leipzig Games Convention – as the pics show, there are 360s set up in each car, so you can play Halo 3 as you rotate over Leipzig. Thanks, Marc. (Post title is Google’s wonderful translation skillz at work.)(Louis Wu 21:37:45 UTC)
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Halo 3 – IMAX Audio Report
360RantRave.com was at the IMAX showing last night; they grabbed some audio from the show. (Bungie’s restrictions barred “Photography, video cameras and cell phone camera use” – no mention of audio recorders, so I guess this is okay.) Thanks, SIRBOE.(Louis Wu 20:34:26 UTC)
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Peter Jackson, Back in the News
There’s an article in the New Zealand Herald that purports to be about Peter Jackson’s Halo game – but really, it’s just about how it’s not really related to the Trilogy, story-wise. Thanks to Blackstar for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 18:53:18 UTC)
